RE: Nice Emacs Lisp

[Drew Adams]

> > elegant, but isn't the custom-file scribbled on by customize ?
> > From my memory it is really a data file, though it is elisp.
> 
> 
> Mostly. Of course I moved the two custom-set-variables and 
> custom-set-faces sections from my old ~/.emacs file into the 
> customisations file first before I activated the code. Since
> then the *customize* buffers read from and write into my
> customisations file. (And from time to time I copy manually
> a line from one file to this or that other file.  
> Doing the same in *customize* would cost too much time.)

FWIW - I like (and recommend) using `custom-file' and keeping Customize stuff
out of the `init-file'. I load `custom-file' as the very last thing in my init
file. (YMMV.)